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OpenGrants pricing
OpenGrants publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 31 August 2026, OpenGrants pricing is free, then $9/month across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $9/month
- Model
- Per user per month
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
OpenGrants plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Subscription | $9/month | 5 | +$9/month, 5 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers core grant search, limited results and saved searches, no card required.
Subscription
$9/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Full search access
- Saved searches and alerts
- Funder profiles
- Opportunity tracking
- Seven day trial, annual option at $99
Where OpenGrants stops being free
Free, Free
- Core grant search
- Limited results and saved searches
- No card required
Subscription, $9/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Full search access
- Saved searches and alerts
- Funder profiles
- Opportunity tracking
- Seven day trial, annual option at $99
What the product covers
The full OpenGrants feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Grant search
- Saved searches and alerts
- Funder profiles
- Opportunity tracking
- Consultant marketplace
- Free tier
People bring OpenGrants in for a small nonprofit with no research budget that needs to know whether relevant grants exist before hiring anyone, a startup hunting sbir, state innovation and economic development funding across multiple agencies, a freelance grant writer covering several clients who cannot pass on a several-hundred-dollar monthly database cost, an organisation wanting to hire a grant writer for one application without running a procurement. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to OpenGrants are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Nonprofits
Too few nonprofits tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenGrants (this page) | Free, then $9/month | Per user per month | - | |
| CommCare | $100/month | Per month by mobile user count | - | vs OpenGrants |
| Foundant Technologies | On request | quote | - | vs OpenGrants |
| SmartSimple Cloud | On request | quote | - | vs OpenGrants |
| CharityEngine | On request | quote | - | vs OpenGrants |
| Sumac | On request | quote | - | vs OpenGrants |
| Keela | On request | Per month by contact count | - | vs OpenGrants |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the OpenGrants badges page.
Before you pay for OpenGrants
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $9/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
OpenGrants runs on web, and is published by OpenGrants of Sacramento, California, United States. The full record is on the OpenGrants review, and the rest of the category is under best nonprofits tools.
OpenGrants pricing questions
- How much does OpenGrants cost?
- OpenGrants publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $9/month for Subscription. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does OpenGrants have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers core grant search, limited results and saved searches, no card required. Paying starts at $9/month for Subscription.
- What is the difference between Free and Subscription on OpenGrants?
- Subscription costs $9/month against Free, and adds full search access, saved searches and alerts, funder profiles, opportunity tracking.
- Which nonprofits tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 nonprofits tools listed alongside OpenGrants have a free tier: Give Lively.
- What am I actually paying for with OpenGrants?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a small nonprofit with no research budget that needs to know whether relevant grants exist before hiring anyone, a startup hunting sbir, state innovation and economic development funding across multiple agencies, a freelance grant writer covering several clients who cannot pass on a several-hundred-dollar monthly database cost.
- Does OpenGrants charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these OpenGrants prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare OpenGrants against before paying?
- The closest nonprofits tools in this directory are CommCare, Foundant Technologies, SmartSimple Cloud, CharityEngine. Each has a side-by-side comparison with OpenGrants covering price, platforms and features.